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Friday, July 01, 2016

First & Then, by Emma Mills

Devon feels like she is drifting through life.She’s in denial about being
infatuated with her friend Cas.She’s
avoiding the entire subject of college.And she’s definitely not
interested in football star Ezra.But
things are changing around her: her cousin Foster has come to live with her family, Cas has become distant and inaccessible, and Ezra
turns out to be really nice.The rest of
it all is predictable light teen romance stuff.

There’s some potential here to explore the expansion of
Devon’s family and the relationship between Devon and her cousin is nicely
played.But overall, not much happens
here of note.There’s jealousy and
some crossed signals, the obligatory Jane Austen love fest (second only in
popularity in YA to out-of-date music – a trope which is blissfully absent
here!).For the most part, though, the
characters are forgettable and hard to distinguish.Unfortunately, the story as a whole is as well.

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